Quotes About Understanding

When Charlie and I finish reading the long footnotes detailing the derivatives activities of major banks, the only thing we understand is that we don't understand how much risk the institution is running.

The key is having more information than the other guy – then analysing it right and using it rationally.

If you can't communicate, it's like winking at a girl in the dark.

The point is, the only real tools we have are our eyes and our heads. It's not the act of seeing with our eyes alone; it's correctly comprehending what we see. Treating life as an autopsy.

These things are going to look primitive to you, but you have to remember that we're not stupid. We have the same intelligence as you. We simply don't have the same cumulative knowledge you do. So we apply our intelligence to what we have.

I've said I love you when I've meant it, and I've said I love you when it was the right thing to say, and I've said I love you when saying anything else would have hurt someone without reason. And I couldn't say a word, there in the dark.

We say, 'I see what you mean,' it's the metaphor for clarity. But sometimes I wish people could see the pictures in my head, instead of my having to describe them with words. Words are clumsy. I wish I could communicate in pictures.

It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

Suppose, for example, a brother has a brilliant but unbroken intellect. He may come to the meetings of a local church, but he is untouched. Unless he meets someone whose mind is sharper than his, he will not be helped. He will analyze the thoughts of the preacher and reject them as useless and meaningless. Months and years may pass by, and it is impossible for anything to touch his spirit. His spirit is stonewalled by his intellectual mind.

since God's Word is living, he who listens and does not have a living response is he who has not actually heard the Word of God.

Es absolutamente imprescindible que tengamos un encuentro con la autoridad de Dios y que poseamos un conocimiento básico de lo que ella es.

There is pleasure from learning the simple truth, and there is a pleasure from learning that the truth is not simple.

intellectual understanding is one of the best versions of the Golden Rule: Listen to others as you would have others listen to you. Precise demonstration of truth is important but not as important as the communal pursuit of it. Put in terms of Kant's categorical imperative, When addressing someone else's ideas, your obligation is to treat them as you believe all human beings ought to treat one another's ideas. WAYNE C. BOOTH

Es por eso que cuando aprendes a investigar aprendes también a valorar la investigación confiable y transmitida en forma clara y exacta.

If it is a choice to be right or kind, always choose kind.

You are, Devlin, too young to understand how rare a thing true love is, how unlikely in this world to happen, and when it does, how unlikely to endure. And once it is lost, how hard to live without.

If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Love is a word that has as many definitions as there are people to define it. Try this one on for size. The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.